The applicability of computational models to the biological world is an active topic of debate.
We argue that a useful path forward results from abandoning hard boundaries between …

Evolution by natural selection is believed to be the only possible source of spontaneous
adaptive organisation in the natural world. This places strict limits on the kinds of systems …

For much of the history of robotics, robots have been built from inert, inorganic, bulk material,
such as metals, plastics, and ceramics. However, advances in materials science are driving …

Unconventional computing devices are increasingly of interest as they can operate in
environments hostile to silicon-based electronics, or compute in ways that traditional …

Unconventional computing seeks to develop new means of acting on and interpreting the
world. These emerge when new tools and computational substrates are built or discovered …

We introduce a simple initial working system in which relations (such as part-whole) are
directly represented via an architecture with operating and learning rules fundamentally …